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Preparing Your Course in
the Event of a Campus Emergency

In the event that the campus has a
health crisis or other emergency resulting in the suspension of
classes on campus, ID&D wants to help you continue to deliver your
courses to your enrolled students..

Below you will see a list of
tutorials that will assist you in converting your face to face
content to MyClasses or how to use additional instructional
software. If you have any questions beyond what is
covered here, please contact us.

USING
CAMPUS EMAIL CLASS LISTS TO STAY IN TOUCHFor each Fall and Spring Semester, class
forum lists are generated and appear in the Address book
for students and professors to use. These lists begin to
be created approximately one week prior to the start of
the semester.

FIRST TIME MYCLASSES USERS TUTORIAL
This
tutorial will help you find the MyClasses log in screen from the
university's homepage. From there you will learn about the
Browser Check function, password issues and how to find your
course list once you have logged in.

ADDING
YOUR SYLLABUS TO MYCLASSESThis
tutorial will help you add a syllabus to your MyClasses course.
You will also be introduced to the Content Browser. Remember
that your syllabus can be uploaded as a word document, pdf file
or html file. The format that you choose is the format that the
students will see.

ADDING FILES AND FOLDERS TO MYCLASSESThis
tutorial will guide you through the process of adding folders to
your homepage as well as browsing for and adding files to those
folders. Adding files and folders to MyClasses is very similar
to organizing files and folders on your own computer.

CREATING ASSIGNMENTS IN MYCLASSES
This
tutorial will assist you in creating assignments inside your
course. MyClasses assignments are used as a "drop-box" for
student submissions. From within the Assignment tool,
instructors can assign due dates and instructions for individual
assignments.

GRADING ASSIGNMENTS IN MYCLASSES
This
tutorial will assist you in grading assignments inside your
course. MyClasses assignments are used as a "drop-box" for
student submissions. From within the Assignment Drop-Box tool,
instructors can grade submitted assignments and return the
submission to the student with a grade or for further
editing.

CREATING DISCUSSIONS IN MYCLASSES
This
tutorial will assist you in creating online discussions inside your
course. MyClasses discussionscan be
threaded, blog-style or private journals. Instructors
can also elect to have a grade assigned to particular
discussions.

GRADING DISCUSSIONS IN MYCLASSES
This
tutorial will assist you in grading discucssion inside your
courss. When grading discussions, instructors can view all posts
related to particular students, including replies and
messages read.

GRADING ASSESSMENTS IN MYCLASSES
This
tutorial will assist you in grading assessments inside your
course. Assessments can automatically be graded by
MyClasses, if you provide a correct answer. For
paragraph and short answer questions, instructors must
manually enter the grades. Students can get instant
feedback from instructors after submitting an
assessment.

ACCESSING
THE MYCLASSES GRADE BOOKThis tutorial will guide you through
the basics of using the MyClasses Grade Book. You can
manually enter columns with associated grades as well as
have additional information provided within the grade
book area.

GOOGLE DOCS FOR COLLABORATIONGoogle Docs provides an array of tools for
instructors to use to share documents, spreadsheets, and
presentations. The instructor and students must all have
a Google Account (Free) in order to share content. Watch the provided tutorial to learn more!

DIMDIM WEB CONFERENCINGDimDim is a free web conferencing website that
allows it users to invite others to join in on a live,
real-time conference. Instructors to can set up a DimDim
Room in order to deliver a synchronous class session
while off campus. Click on their Video Tour to learn
more!